Show TERRITORIAL TOPICS Salt Lake and Her Advantages As Viewed From Afar THE NEEDED ROAD TO THE WEST Push and Business In Cache ValleyImprove I ments the TatehwordTIie Granary I of UtahGeneral I I MALAR CITY Idaho March GSpecial correspondence of Tnn HlmunAfter many years of patient waiting and isolation it seems that Malad city is about to come to the front A corps of Union Pacific engineers en-gineers are now surveying a now line and everything indicates that tho main line of tho Utah Northern railway will soon HUN THROUGH THIS VAIIBV Whenever this is done and all its resources developed Malad will be among the most fertilo and richest valleys of Idaho Territory Terri-tory From the banks of Bear river to the northern boundary of Oneida county stretches an immense tract of arable land which will in a few years sustain a vast popolation This country will necessarily I be tributary to ono of two cities in Utah I Ogden or Salt Lake which shall it be Og den it is true has some advantage in distance dis-tance and a great deal of advantage in enterprise Whilo Salt Lake merchants and capitalists are wasting their time in quarreling quarrel-ing among themselves the Ogden people are energetically pushing their interests in every direction and it would seem that unless un-less the capital city bestirs itself it will eventually become an insignificant tributary itself As matters stand today Ogden is naturally the great distributing point for southern Idaho and will remain so until the Los Angeles or some other western road < is built For years Salt Lake City has held TUB TRADE OP THIS SECTION OP COUNTUT and with a railroad to the coast it might continue todo indefinitely But without such a road it must soon lose it all When it is understood that twothirds of the goods consumed in southern Idaho are western i e California products the importance of n western road will be more apparent to the people of Salt Lake City This feature the case hardly seems to have entered into the calculations of the projectors of tho Los Angeles road and should be another incentive incen-tive to urge it onward That Ogden fully realizes tho situation is apparent from the fact that an effort is being be-ing made to have its advantages fully advertised adver-tised in the Idaho press I am reliably informed that the Idaho Enterprise tho leading lead-ing paper in southern Idaho is about to publish a series of articles showing up the rapid growth and advancement of Ogden its superior facilities and the supposed advantages ad-vantages it possesses as a distributing point Of the full scope of these articles I am uninformed un-informed but apprehend it is an advertising SCHEMA FOR BOOMING OGDEX and capturing the trade of southern Idaho Salt Lake will make an irreparable mistake if she allows her rival to quietly absorb tho commerce of tho most prosperous portion of southern Idaho and northern Utah It would seem that Salt Lake men are sadly deficient in a knowledge of their surroundings sur-roundings They have been straining their eyes toward the south and tho west so long that northern objects no longer leave an impression im-pression upon their retinas Had they lived in Malad valley a year they might begin to realize that the progressive and enterprising enterpris-ing clement of southern Utah is steadily and rapidly moving northward that today thousands of Utah people have located themselves on tho immense plains and in the rich valleys of southern Idaho This population whose wealth and numbers in a few years hence can hardly be conjectured will ultimately be tributary to SOME MICHIT IXTERMOUXTUX CHi Shall it be Salt Lake or shall it be Ogden or will some other great metropolis spring up to eclipse the twain In these days of steam and electricity cities are not the result re-sult of ages but the work of a day as it were and tho slow and prosy can never hope to keep pace with the ceaseless active onergies which surround them Today thousands of people in Idaho are keenly watching the race between Ogden and Salt Lake and though the truth may bo very unsavory un-savory to the latter still the fact remains that betting is in favor of the former and that Salt Lake backers are growing weaker and fewer every day and it will require no considerable amount of rustling to restore lost confidence The question now is will Salt Lake be relegated rel-egated to obscurity or will her people awaken to their true situation soon enough to wrest from Ogden the advantages it has already gained I Is it possible that the pride of Salt Lake will submit to the ignomony of being in Utah A CITY OF THE SECOND MAGNITUDE And all from a lack of enterprise and push I I hope not I hope that her people will see where their real interests lie I hopo that ere it is too late the Los Angeles railroad will be an accomplished fact that the great Midland route will be opened that an abundant water supply will have been obtained that an effective sewerage system will be in operation that cable railroads will traverse her streets in short that all things needful to make of Salt Lake City tho intermonntain metropolis will have boon done LANCELOT |